“Fell Sound”

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Some artist collaborations make perfect sense from the moment hear about them. Such is the case with Mirrorring, a team-up between Grouper's Liz Harris and Jesy Fortino, who writes stark stunners as Tiny Vipers. Mirrorring's forthcoming debut LP, Foreign Body, was the result of a songwriting session between the two in Portland, and you can hear the pair's talents meld in the album's lead track, "Fell Sound". Sonically, the song isn't too far off from the cloudy drone featured on Grouper's 2011 double-release, A I A, with vocals that are obscured yet also sound oddly exposed, to the point where you can hear the breaths that close off every lyrical syllable. There's a little bit of guitar that comes in and out of the mix, but mostly "Fell Sound" is dread in the form of just a few chords, the kind of unresolved tension that marked Tiny Vipers' last album, 2009's Life on Earth.